Jan 13, 2021 · 44m
Legendary film sets with surprising pasts and real locations that inspired Hollywood. Within these decaying structures are the echoes of history.


Ambitious engineering projects that have been left in ruins.
These are some of the most spectacular examples of abandoned engineering the world has ever known. The series explores how and why they were built, consider the financial and social costs of their failure and examine the environmental and ecological impacts. The series also explores how experts came up with plans to make something beautiful or useful from the ruins.
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Jan 13, 2021 · 44m
Legendary film sets with surprising pasts and real locations that inspired Hollywood. Within these decaying structures are the echoes of history.
Jan 20, 2021 · 44m
In North Wales a secret facility which once manufactured mustard gas and enriched uranium lies in ruins. In Malta is a luxurious quarantine facility, that hides a dark secret.
Jan 27, 2021 · 44m
Ruins of a vast industrial ghost town in the United States, a windswept Scottish island and the remains of a resort in Japan that watched a city burn.
Feb 3, 2021 · 44m
An engineering masterpiece carved into the cliff-face, and a long-range beacon that transmitted one of the most infamous messages in American history.
Feb 10, 2021 · 44m
An American desert canyon where fortunes were made and lives were lost, and an island fortress in Scotland with an Achilles heel.
Feb 17, 2021 · 44m
An iron monster lost in the Alaskan tundra, a Crusader fort thrown into a modern conflict, and a prison built to house a mafia kingpin.
Feb 24, 2021 · 44m
A real-life concrete jungle in America's 'Rust Belt', and an industrial facility that brought energy to a remote corner of the world.
Mar 3, 2021 · 44m
A Middle Eastern region littered with ruins and a strange facility in Taiwan that struck fear into the hearts of those who knew its true purpose.
Mar 10, 2021 · 44m
Eerie ruins hiding in the forested hills of Arkansas, USA, and a disintegrating gulag in Albania that housed enemies of the state.
Mar 17, 2021 · 44m
A volcanic island just off Taiwan containing chilling ruins from its darkest era, and a miniature railway that lies forgotten in the woods of Arkansas.
Mar 24, 2021 · 44m
A fairy-tale castle that staged one of the strangest stories of the Second World War and a haunting complex on an old American Frontier.
Mar 31, 2021 · 44m
Bizarrely-shaped huts in India, once home to global superstars, are now eerily quiet and neglected, and a shattered compound in Colombia linked to a criminal mastermind.
Quick answers about this season's release timeline and episode lineup.
Abandoned Engineering Season 7 premiered on January 13, 2021.
Abandoned Engineering Season 7 has 12 episodes.
The season opens with Season 7 Episode 1, "Hollywood Heroes". It aired on January 13, 2021.
Go to Season 7 Episode 1